Effectively Wild Episode 2341: The Second Half Has Started

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kutter Crawford’s mysterious wrist accident, then discuss Wander Franco’s conviction (14:58) and Walker Monfort’s promotion (19:57) before checking in (33:36) on the players and teams on pace to overperform or underperform their preseason projections the most at the precise halfway point of the season. Finally (1:12:44), they answer […]

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0:00.0	I want to know about baseball.
0:03.0	I want to know about every single team.
0:06.0	I want to know about stat glass,
0:09.0	some fan graphs, and about, oh, oh, tommy.
0:12.0	I'm a very modern fan reading up on all the analytics.
0:18.0	I want to know about baseball presented by Patreon supporters of Effectively Wild.
0:27.8	Hello and welcome to episode 2341 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from FanGrafts presented by our Patreon supporters.
0:39.1	I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. Hello, Meg.
0:42.5	Hello.
0:43.5	Can I tell you about the newest baseball mystery that has consumed my mind?
0:48.3	Sure.
0:49.3	So Cutter Crawford, Red Sox pitcher, is having likely season-ending right wrist surgery.
0:57.1	And the Red Sox are declining to say how he hurt his wrist.
1:04.1	So he had an off-field accident.
1:07.3	That is what Alex Cora has divulged.
1:09.8	But he has declined to say what the nature of that accident was.
1:15.5	He said, it wasn't irresponsible.
1:19.3	He said, I'm not going to get into details.
1:23.5	It's not disappointing, as in it's not disappointing to the organization.
1:28.1	Yeah.
1:28.2	Like he did something that was disappointing.
1:29.8	Obviously, it's disappointing that he hurt himself.
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